The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated |
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abstract action admit affirm appear apprehension argument Aristotle axioms believe body causation cause chemical affinity cognitions colour conceive concrete consciousness constitution contemplation declare derived Descartes discover distinction Divine doctrine effect elements error exercise existence experience external facts faculties faith feeling Fichte Gnosiology Hamilton Hegel human idea implies individual induction infinite infinity intellectual intelligence intuitive convictions intuitive knowledge involved J. S. Mill judgments Kant knowledge known law of identity laws of thought Leibnitz Locke logical look maxim mental metaphysicians metaphysics mind moral moral cognitions native nature necessary necessity never notion objects observation operation organism original pantheism particular perceive perception philosophy Plato present primitive principles priori proceed properties propositions qualities reality reason regard relation represented rience scepticism SECT self-evident sensation sense separate soul space speculation substance suppose theology things thought tion true truth universal vols καὶ
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Page 294 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Page 191 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 287 - ... found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts that we took a wrong course: and that before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine our own abilities, and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with.
Page 105 - When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distances that he thought all objects whatever touched his eyes (as he expressed it) as what he felt did his skin; and thought no objects so agreeable as those which were smooth and regular, though he could form no judgment of their shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him. He knew not the shape of...
Page 173 - We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existence; and are warned from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily coextensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.* 2.
Page 15 - Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time.
Page 148 - When we do our utmost to conceive the existence of external bodies, we are all the while only contemplating our own ideas.
Page 349 - For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To the Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not. in temples made with hands; neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed...
Page 347 - When we have often seen or thought of two things together, and have never in any one instance either seen or thought of them separately, there is, by the primary law of association, an increasing difficulty, which may in the end become insuperable, of conceiving the two things apart.
Page 77 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low— And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.